Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

Things explain each other, not themselves.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.